The ONS Podcast

“When we are able to connect with the things that give us meaning in our life, it makes us stronger, it makes us happier, it makes our life more fulfilled,” Caroline Peacock, ACPE certified educator,…

What is it like to guide a professional association that serves more than 100,000 oncology nurses? ONS Directors-at-Large Deborah “Hutch” Allen, PhD, RN, CNS, FNP-BC, AOCNP®, Kris Mathey, MS, APRN-CN…

“Genomics is part and parcel of oncology treatment today. Even if a patient’s genomics might not affect the current choice of therapy, it may do so in the future. The use of genomics and biomarkers i…

“These policies, procedures, order sets, and algorithms for oncologic emergencies are so important. They give you knowledge in your back pocket: This is the way we’re going to treat this, this is the…

“Acknowledge that grief is a reoccurring theme. This isn’t something that’s a one and done. This is a process that you’re going to continue to revisit, and in recognizing that, I think this allows us…

“Effective communication with healthcare providers, making informed decisions about their care, and gaining strength through connections to others” are the key aspects of patient self-advocacy, ONS m…

“Once patients come out on the other side, nursing care involves understanding how to triage their disease: If they call you with concerns, how would you address those concerns? How would you find ou…

“Participating in formal academic degree programs, obtaining contact hours for renewing your certification, peer-to-peer sharing with colleagues—they’re all types of education that you can use to be …

“For those without cancer or other illnesses, we often have a resolution or relief of this fatigue. ‘Oh, I’m just going to go to bed early and get a couple more hours of sleep tonight.’ Or ‘I’m going…

“Work culture is really how people work together. But in my opinion, there are three major components: it’s the employer, it’s the leadership, and it’s the staff—all staff, we’re not only talking nur…

“A lot of healthcare workers that I talk to say that they are kind of brought up with the culture that violence is part of the job. It’s not your job to take abuse,” Chris Snyder, University of Utah …

“Oftentimes, local policy changes are the ones that are going to influence your day-to-day practice most directly—and are the ones where your voice has the most power because you’re closer to the dec…

“Consider your patient’s diagnosis. What kind of cancer do they have? And ask yourself, ‘Could this patient be in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)? Is there something more that we should …

“We found that nurses still needed clarity of terminology and the rationale for germline, somatic, and homologous recombination deficiency testing,” ONS member Paula Anastasia, MN, RN, AOCN®, clinica…

“Nurses can bridge the information gap and help patients better understand that the information received from next-generation sequencing (NGS) can really help to determine which treatment they will r…

“Really knowing these steps can save our own nursing time and save our patient’s skin from all the dressing removals. If we’re not doing these dressings as much, we’re all going to be happier,” MiKae…

What is it like to guide a professional association that serves more than 100,000 oncology nurses? ONS Chief Executive Officer Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, RN, FAAN, and Directors-at-Large Patricia (Patty) …

“I think that we as nurses need to advocate when a patient is uncomfortable. And it’s not your classic ‘pain in my hip’ kind of thing. This is a more subtle, ‘I can’t breathe, I have a sense of impen…

“Let’s take time, invest time, in learning more about futility. Let’s invest some time in learning more about how to understand our patient’s goals, their family’s goals, what their values are,” Kath…

“Our goal in surgical oncology is, of course, to treat the cancer for a cure, but to do it in a safe manner so the patient is able to recover and resume their normal living activities that they had b…